A89732:802
A discussion of that great point in divinity, the sufferings of Christ; and the…
A discussion of that great point in divinity, the sufferings of Christ; and the question about his righteousness active, passive : and the imputation thereof. Being an answer to a dialogue entitled The meritorious price of redemption, justification, &c. / By John Norton teacher of the church at Ipswich in New-England. Who was appointed to draw up this answer by the general court.A discussion of that great point in divinity, the sufferings of Christ; and the question about his righteousnesse active, passive : and the imputation thereof. Being an answer to a dialogue intituled The meritorious price of redemption, justification, &c. / By John Norton teacher of the church at Ipswich in New-England. Who was appointed to draw up this answer by the generall court.
London: printed by A.M. for Geo. Calvert, 1653
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If Augustine's judgement in this Controversy be of weight with you, you may learn it out of these his ensuing words. But (saith he) after what manner do the Pelagians say that death passed unto us by Adam? For we therefore die because he is dead, and he died because he sinned: they say (saith he) the punishment passed without the fault, and that innocent babes are punished with an unjust punishment ⟨p. 172⟩by contracting death without the desert of death:1 which the Catholic faith acknowledgeth of the one alone Mediator of God and Men, the Man Christ Jesus, who vouchsafed to undergo death for us, that is, the punishment of sin without sin: for as he alone was made the Son of man that we by him might be made the sons of God; so he alone undertook for us the punishment of sin without evil deserts, that we by him might obtain grace without good deserts; for as unto us there was no good due, so unto him there was no evil due.
If Augustines judgement in this Controversie be of weight with you, you may learn it out of these his ensuing words. But (saith he) after what manner do the Pelagians say that death passed unto us by Adam? For we therefore die because he is dead, and he died because he sinned: they say (saith he) the punishment passed without the fault, and that innocent babes are punished with an unjust punishment ⟨p. 172⟩by contracting death without the desert of death:1 which the Catholike faith acknowledgeth of the one alone Mediatour of God and Men, the Man Christ Jesus, who vouchsafed to undergo death for us, that is, the punishment of sin without sin: for as he alone was made the Son of man that we by him might be made the sons of God; so he alone undertook for us the punishment of sin without evil deserts, that we by him might obtain grace without good deserts; for as unto us there was no good due, so unto him there was no evil due.
- 1See more testimonies both of August. and other Ancients to this purpose out of Grotius de satisf. Christ.